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Summary
What are the biggest opportunities and challenges for scaling geothermal district heating across Europe?
Overall, the biggest driver for the large-scale uptake of geothermal energy are the EU climate and renewable targets which require the stepwise phase-out of fossil fuels in district heating. This is complemented by country-specific circumstances. In Denmark, for example there is an increasing awareness of the negative implications of biomass, e.g. import dependencies, price variability and questions regarding its sustainability. With our projects in Poland, we understand that using the countries own resource and air quality improvements rank very high.
However, despite the huge potential in many European cities to replace fossil fuels in the existing district heating system or to newly connect customers with individual oil and gas boilers like our project with Vestforbrænding will do in Greater Copenhagen, barriers remain that also EU can help to overcome.
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